On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 22:53 +0200, Enrico Schuerrer wrote:
> In Germany and Austria, for instance, this format was in use for a few years after implementation of ISO units but it doesn't become accepted widely. So the old format DD.MM.YYYY is used (again) - btw. even from MS W2K German.

FWIW, I've always written dates as follows:

20070507.1717

It's simple to write, leaves nothing to confusing, and orders the
numbers the "correct" way (MSB->LSB), IMHO.

As an aside, Canada is one of the WORST countries when it comes to date
formatting since officially it's dd/mm/yy here, yet, since we do so much
business with our neighbours to the south, it's VERY common to see the
US mm/dd/yy format.

This is fine if it's Halloween, but tell me whether 03/04/07 is supposed
to be march 4th, or april 3rd? It's a COMPLETELY moronic situation IMHO,
and I'm sure many dollars have been lost over the years due to this
stupidity on our part.

TTYL

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